yes i mean yes. you know that you know yeah. he could feel that he had a ticking dad when i say he made them all the love you know enough i don't. think. it's revealed the three ukrainian ships that russia says illegally entered its territorial waters had weapons and ammunition on board and all of the international community has been quick to back kiev not moscow in a standoff. spot you've been pledged to support companies define u.s. sanctions on the ground the french petrochemical giant tower has pulled out of the largest gas project in the country with

a lucrative contract snatched up by china. five international humanitarian groups call on the us the hole to its military support for saudi arabia over the war in yemen stressing if things continue as they are some fourteen million people could starve to death. good evening this is r.t. and. moscow has released video testimony of three crew members currently detained in russia following sunday's clash in the cat strait incident brought russia and ukraine close to conflict the commander of one of the ukrainian ships consciously ignored russia's orders to stop. i am ready melissa boy command of the navy division of the grain and military forces were answered the code straight after crossing the russian border we had visual contact with the russian border service

vessels i consciously ignored their commands to stop on our boat we had small arms and a machine gun with ammunition i was aware that the action of the ukrainian vessels in the coast straits were provoked if i was following my orders to move our ships from the port or for this to maria opal standard to place in the kits strait which lies between the russian mainland on the crimean peninsula ukraine says it ships were intercepted after they left russia's territorial waters we can hear now from reg s.d.f. has been following a court hearing for some of the detained crew and police has the international reaction from london. well twelve of the detained ukrainian sailors and officers have been charged with illegally crossing the russian border they've been arrested now until the twenty fifth of january the rest will be charged presumably with the same accusation charge as the others at the late to date but the federal security services again released more details as to what was in these ships and that all of

this the federal security service has now released for example documents that they found aboard the three vessels that were in but that are impounded now here in kutch it was in tile arsenal we're talking about would amount to grenade launchers for them i believe six machine guns other weapons as well pistols we're talking about thousands and thousands of rounds of ammunition of the incident itself to place party in the territorial waters of the russian federation the strait of kutch in the territorial waters that were part of the russian federation before they were union with crimea in two thousand and fourteen. contrary to the un convention on russian border ships carried out a frankly aggressive action against the vessels of the navy of the armed forces of ukraine.

russian federal security service. reported that abroad this ukrainian naval throughout the fla till. two agents count to espionage agents of the ukrainian intelligence agency. s.b.u. two of them something that ukraine has since confirmed the russians believe that the order to do so came from the very top from ukraine's government to justify the ensuing martial law that we've seen stablished across many regions of ukraine the ukrainians however is adamant they're saying that this was an act of war provocation by russia that russia behaved aggressively towards ukraine that they

shouldn't have done this that they had filed a notification of intent to pass through the strait of curch but that the russians had carried out this aggressive action let's go to london now expects a poly correspondent in the u.k. where parliament's been discussing the developments today what's been said polly. well it wasn't in the plan but politicians demanded an urgent debate on the situation in the sea or was over and they got it except i would say that it wasn't much of a debate because the condemnation of russia's actions was pretty much unanimous for president putin's actions have read. the borders of the nation for the first time since can will rule we must never forget or normalize the united kingdom will certainly continue to be committed to the crane's independence sovereignty and territorial integrity of the piccies approach is very similar to the idea of heating a frog in water that he keeps on pushing things and keeps on pushing that he will

not be what you said it's the reaction there was talk of russia being a pariah state ignoring the international rule based system also talking about showing russia the consequences of its actions and debates on how to show ukraine practical support there were a few questions about making sure that president poroshenko of ukraine doesn't abuse this martial law that he's going to be putting in place making sure that he sticks to the elections that are scheduled for early next year perhaps the brightest note struck from that debate was from the foreign minister saying that the u.k. really wants to have a good relationship with russia if only moscow would behave better now a similar attitude coming from across the poland the u.s. state department announced today that it condemns russia's aggressive actions as well canada issued a similar statement saying siding with ukraine calling for russia to release the

captured vessels and we heard from the russian foreign minister as well today he was actually in paris meeting with his french counterpart to join even a dream. according to the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov this was all a provocation but not from the russian side from the. craney insight take a listen you're using your i don't see any need in mediators if the ukrainian side and its partners in europe are interested in not having such incidents those ukrainian allies should send kiev strong signals so that such provocations never happen again on a practical level local border authorities on both sides could have discussed any tenach allergies if the ukrainian so i didn't understand something although they use the existing procedures back in september. well sir as is the case with the recent history you've got the international community saying one thing and russia standing firm and saying that's not how we say at. least not in terms believes

russia was on to a lose lose situation in the strait no matter what whatever you do you're going to be rolled so if you let the ships through what you've done is you've created a precedent where they will think that they can come back the next town without going through the procedure and they will so you can't really do that but if you stop them then you then you are made to look like the bad guys because you're stopping people most people don't know that there's an agreement about how to use the straits so they don't know that the ukrainians are always up to now will fulfill that egregious so as far as they're concerned the russians seizing ships a lot of the russian seizing ships is an example of that of their bad behavior but of course they don't know the background of course nobody's going to explain the background to be them quite sure that most of the parliamentarians in from british parliament have no idea what the agreement of the straits is and haven't bothered to look. to months of rumors it's been confirmed a chinese fuel giant is replacing francis total iran's multi-billion dollar

southpaws gas project as the new bushel explains the move might come as a surprise to some. self pars is the angelina jolie of gas fields with by far the biggest reserves on the planet is the industry's star attraction yet desperate bid to keep its paws on polls have been well a total failure who wins from trumpeting its own ally france his biggest bugbear china of course china sea and b.c. has officially replaced the pal insults parts but it has not started work practically talks need to be held with c. and b. c. about when it will start operations what about your pledge to stand up to terrible mr trump in gas industry lingo hot air mr michael will fight his nation's top employers unless it means shirtfront in washington and then. we are going to start a strategic trade war with the united states over iran and so i repeat very clearly

we're not going to sanction or counter sanction american companies in response to this subject we will not force companies to stay and that is the reality of the business life of the president of the french republic but he's not the c.e.o. of total never fear you both you to the rescue of our people diverse as the european commission we have the duty to protect european companies so we now need to act and this is why we're launching the process of activating the blocking statute from one thousand nine hundred six. any one thing that blocking statute to stop us sanctions hurting europe no we're very angry at you mr trump and we're just going to let our companies fail as royal regions take over german italian investors quit iran's huge rail upgrade russia and china step in india's actually doubled purchases of iran's crude member america's least diplomatic diplomat pledging to torture tehran we're going to do everything we can describe is iran hard as the

british say to make to squeeze them until the pips squeak their squeaking sell nets actually europe's top firms as they dropped by e.u. leaders so. alvey the thing e.u. independence so much for europe standing up to trump. economist alcohol matilda's that the european union is sadly unable to protect its own companies if you look at the union. with. john carr you see that it's basically an organisation. maybe the russians out there americans in. the europe the business know that nothing will happen the americans don't want this is. just the facts of the of the power that americans are able to play one of the kind of the companies you better stay out and they will and

this is exactly what happens to companies because the e.u. is not able and not really to protect their own companies. international humanitarian groups have called on the u.s. to halt its military support for saudi arabia over riyadh some going campaign in yemen and a joint statement five charities sounded the alarm stressing as many as fourteen million people could starve to death unless urgent action is taken. the united states is one of the most generous donors of humanitarian assistance in yemen but these contributions pale in comparison to the harm caused by u.s. military support and diplomatic cover to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates if the us does not cease its military support for this saudi u.a.e. coalition it's too will bear responsibility for what may be the largest famine in decades and civil war in yemen flared up in twenty fifteen soon saw an intervention

by a saudi led coalition which backed the yemeni government to fight against the who the rebels conflicts lead to severe widespread famine the shortages of medicine for the ten thousand yemenis or for victim to the ongoing war with some killed in fighting others succumbing to disease and hunger. despite the mounting international pressure on saudi arabia over the war in yemen as well as the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi the u.k. still carried out joint military drills with riyadh involving british and saudi royal air forces we haven't told charney executive director at the norwegian refugee council usa who's one of the signatories of the joint statement of the us government he told us that both sides in yemen are contributing to the ongoing famine. there is a complete economic collapse that is primarily responsible for creating the famine condition this is point in other words people don't have the money to buy says there are delays in getting goods into yemen and then on top of this you have the

conflict you have parties to the conflict that are preventing us from gaining access to vulnerable people the coalition is bombing food granary and preventing the production of food in some areas in the north on sarala for their part they are often preventing people from moving to safer places to where they might be able to find either food or at least shelter from the from the conflict. hopes a clearer picture with him and just see what the form we can take someone joining the sons will face challenges in the u.s. and be put on hold after having brought by journalists have official information and failed with agent and i'm open have details. judge has asked both sides to come back in one week with supplemental information and a response so no conclusion at the courthouse in alexandria virginia now

essentially what is taking place is that the reporter's committee has filed to make it public any charges facing julian asunta the co-founder of wiki leaks now essentially we've had a grand jury in alexandria virginia that has been hearing testimony related to julius songe and at this point there are no public charges that been filed however they document has been made public a case file from the prosecution and that led many to believe that there were going to be criminal charges pending against julian a songe now at this point there is no public record of that in the court will neither confirm nor deny any charges prosecutors say that any charges against assad can't be made public until he has been arrested and apprehended however the reporters committee is saying that this should be a matter of public record and it should be well known now speculate the jew innocence could be charged for releasing u.s.

military material that was classified related to iraq and afghanistan other speculate he could face charges related to the diplomatic cables that were classified that he made public now still others suggest that it's possibly the cia's cyber security programs however the guardian newspaper in the united kingdom has recently come out with a story alleging that secret meetings took place between julian assad and paul man a forward at the ecuadorian embassy and that apparently paul man afore visited julian assange twenty thirteen twenty fifteen and the spring of two thousand and sixteen just a few months after one of the alleged meetings between giuliana songe and paul man of fort wiki leaks revealed that some of the democratic party e-mails had been stolen by russian intelligence officers now many are suggesting that it's possible that the charges against. are related to his meetings allegedly with paul mann of fort however wiki leaks has this response remember this day when the guardian

permitted a serial fabricator to totally destroy the paper's reputation wiki leaks is willing to bet the guardian a million dollars and he said it is that man of ford's never matches on outside the courthouse in alexandria virginia supporters of joyner songe have made a public presence and displayed their words the reason that the reporters committee in particular is particularly interested in this manner because of the possibility or at least suggestion that's been made. that. the criminal charges against mr science are predicated on his publication of information i think there's a public interest certainly weighs in favor of disclosure we'll have to see i think how the court ultimately comes out. for to myself denied any contact with wiki leaks saying the story is totally false and deliberately libelous or are five surrounding a sham thinks a song has become a two in a political game. in an open secret for many years that there's been

a secret grand jury convened in virginia trying to find a charge any charge heloc of the make up a new law just to prosecute julian assange venture the fact that he's shown a very bright light and some very murky and dark details of what the american state was doing it's very very useful for the american establishment and the democrats particularly to conflate everything with one big mass pool manifold the mood of pro don't try we can mix is all part of win big sort of russia gate type thing whereas a few unpick the details none of that hangs together whatsoever and i think julian is now becoming a bit of a pawn in a very high stakes game that in american politics washington politics. u.s. defense panel has warned that the military is falling out of alignment with its key goals the national defense strategy commish. submitted a report to congress saying without modernization in the armed forces the u.s. could soon face a national security emergency document says that quote if the united states had to

five russia and a contingency or china in a war over taiwan americans could face a decisive military defeat the commission calls for budget caps on military spending to be removed as the wars in afghanistan syria and iraq are holding the military back causing the us to neglect so-called great power competition. i can speak now to twenty twenty presidential hopeful for the us libertarian party that southern border could have your own are that this sounds like war mongering army on at its finest the defense report calling for more money essentially saying the us could lose a war against russia in the baltics or against china over taiwan do you believe that those realistic scenarios in the report. i think what the report is reflecting is that the us military has entirely lost sight of its actual purpose the military's job is to keep the united states of america and our people safe

at the lowest cost possible to keep us safe with as low taxes as we can and this move is a move in the wrong direction what we should be doing and if elected what i will do pull out of nato bring the troops home shut down foreign military bases stop getting involved with wars that are not our business and not our problem what we should be doing is the opposite and what we see here is absolute lunacy a movement to try to have more military spending when we are already the united states already spending more than the next several nations combined on military spending if elected i'm going to shut down the music to the ears of the military industrial complex does more funding because they are calling for budget caps to be removed as more funding actually mean more safety for us defense. no because more funding in this case is being used to create more enemies overseas the

reason that americans are in danger right now and they are is because the us military is creating enemies they're creating enemies in iran and iraq and afghanistan they're creating enemies throughout the entire middle east we don't need to create more enemies instead we should open trade we should get rid of tariffs and saying sions we should let american culture that culture of individual ism of capitalism to spread through trade and set trying to force it through war. speaking of war the ones in afghanistan and iraq has been mentioned in the report to the weakening u.s. military capability. yes because they are diverting resources away from research and development to words total nonsense it's true that we want to make sure that we are as safe as possible but if we squander all of our resources all of our manpower all of our soldiers on these fool's errand wars i mean this

order iraq and afghanistan has been going on so law that the people who will be sent next year won't have even would have even been born in on september eleventh two thousand and one the fact that has gone bad log shows that this is a poorly planned. for the planned operation listen that operation was supposedly there to kill osama bin laden i think it's silly to have a massive infantry deployment to kill one person but it worked now what it's time to do is to admit victory come home the same is true in nato the nato was designed to win the cold war it did it's time to admit defeat and come home we can cut military spending by ninety percent and we can cut taxes military spending taxes accordingly we can be safer and have less and have lower taxes if we have the courage to say america defense is important but defending israel and saudi arabia and friends that's not our job do you think congress will agree with you that will

they respond to the warnings and move the budget caps and invest more money in the military. will congress trouble will congress spend more money in the military there's a good chance that they will i hope that they don't i hope that some of the saner minds in congress prevail and are able to shut that down to really stop that extreme military spending i hope that congress can start reducing military spending so that we don't spend more than the next several countries combined on military that's my hope i don't see that happening right now what we need is a change in culture and a change in leadership to make sure that we bring the military down to the size that is actually useful for america are in pleasure to speak to my guest alvin for twenty twenty twenty twenty presidential hopeful for the us libertarian party. for pfizer going on strike in the city of leon demanding better pay and conditions

has blocked streets in the city as they marched with torches and banners the walkout comes just ahead of the will famous festival of lights and attracts thousands of visitors to the city from around the world. france has been rocked by angry demonstrations nationwide against fuel tax increases since then led by people wearing bright yellow vests for that matter on today reacted to the mass discontent his reforms caused the movement this movement is generated significant protests and also unacceptable violence in france's mainland and in its overseas territories what was said during the presidential campaign has to stand regardless of whether you backed me in the election we can't on a monday be in favor of the environment then on tuesday begins fuel price increases we can decide some years ago to have a tax increase and he now to denounce it. several hundred thousand people are now taking part in what would have become weekly demonstrations protesters told us they won't stop until reverses his policy. because different people are not asking for

too much we are demanding employment and an end to these excessive fuel taxes there are some people who are angry in resorting to violence because they're against everybody but the government really has to do more to address people's legitimate concerns many people made a mistake in voting for this government so now young people are angry. that i was hit in the face by a grenade from the right there was an explosion close by this won't change anything what we want is to raise the minimum wage and cut fuel prices the environment is not a priority for french people at the moment will keep protesting and this room stop us despite the victims it is shame that it caused such violence. group of high school students in the u.s. avoided punishment for giving what appeared to be a nazi salute in a group photo an investigation ruled no action could be taken due to the student's first amendment rights which protect freedom of expression we cannot know the

intentions in the hearts of those who were involved more over because of students first amendment rights the district is not in a position to punish the students for their actions in the photo taken back in may students from baraboo high school could be seen raising their right arms some of them told the media they were simply waving to the parents and everybody was convinced the image went viral and there was widespread call for action we've put the issue up for debate. when it comes to first amendment i mean that is a very tricky thing and as far as i'm concerned wisconsin legislative house just passed a year a year ago they passed a legislature that if you actually do any type of protest or some kind of action against the right or the neo nazis you actually get punished some kind of curious how they're perceiving that there's no consequences for doing that kind of behavior but then at the same time they're willing to punish somebody who's willing to stand against i definitely think it was right not to punish the

students i don't even think it should have brought the first amendment into the equation because it diminishes the first amendment which has bigger fish to fry in this case i think to be dismissed as a prank so if you have an image especially photograph it's created it's it's not natural image so the question is who was the person who was taking the picture and who was the person giving basically direction to the kids to wave that way so that i mean that's i mean for me that's i think one of the most important things to take into consideration kids oh always want to do something stupid particularly in the picture i've done silly things in pictures making my face look silly or wearing something dumb that's why i had an immediate instinct to defend these kids even though i will give them a few hours of history classes we look at them bearable con city or county general

it's not a four percent white. so the kids in that county have a little exposure to other cultures diversity maybe gluten education is not what it should be i believe these kids should get much better education or understanding of what that salute means in fact actually the history of the salute is very complex it goes back to roman times and it's actually the first of usually no one military salute so it has a long history not necessarily tied with hate of the time it became a symbol of hate perhaps in the one nine hundred twenty s. and thirty's i disassembled and told them to wait and they obviously did this thing but that also comes from a lot of exposure to the media so we see a lot about trying to do it right in the streets we see a lot of proud boys but this type of social. social groups and social ideologies they're been popping up around our country so i can also see media

having an impact on that. people living in a small community in germany have been warned not to eat the local fish due to toxic water the pollution is being blamed on a nearby u.s. base. not just under the cloud of i'm thinking more and more about my baby people here are increasingly learning they have cancer i think that a lot of it is linked to the jet fuel this topic is sometimes raised locally but

mostly effort one is scared to touch it and wonder to see it's not going. i use that every other person has cancer this includes me i have cancer my boss at work also has cancer it involves everyone and every day is just that not many think about it until it involves them. the number of cancer patients hasn't changed in the last ten years the same goes with the other diseases consequently for the root cause of the risks you need research that would cover a much larger number of people you need a good database on diseases if the local hospital hasn't found a spike in oncology diseases that doesn't say anything about a possible connection it's not the way it's established. the problem is that there are too many risk factors that influence our bodies in the end it's very difficult to find who's the one to blame.